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 | "A man"s work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has
found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely
to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself ... so long
as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly
safe." | |
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| "A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM
and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill
into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain
finished before lunch." | |
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Fred Allen
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| "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood." | |
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General George S. Patton
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| "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically
or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." | |
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Calvin John Coolidge
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| "All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself
anew." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective
employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for
employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference
between the men?s room and the women?s room without having little pictures
on the doors." | |
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Dave Barry
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| "Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn"t the work he is
supposed to be doing." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "At the working man"s house hunger looks in but dares not
enter." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working." | |
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Albert Giacometti
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| "Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour you are now
wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand
possibilities." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "Brains first and then Hard Work." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "By the work one knows the workman." | |
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Jean de La Fontaine
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| "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to
be a boss and work twelve hours a day." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of
themselves." | |
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Dale Carnegie
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| "Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up
in the night and think of your work with satisfaction ? a work at which
you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks
can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our
effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to
all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every
action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These
qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can
offer." | |
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Tarthang Tulku
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| "Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness
is." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your
community. It is a central human activity. Work, in this view: makes you
honest with yourself, requires that you develop your faculties and skills,
empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do, connects you
in a compassionate way with the outside world, supports the philosophy of
non-destructiveness and sustainability, and integrates work with personal
life and community." | |
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Roger Pritchard
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| "Hard work never killed anybody but why take the chance?" | |
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Edgar Bergen
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| "He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would
have been adultery." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be
better employed." | |
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Socrates
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| "How do I work? I grope." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker
had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that
it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my
work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a
young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe
I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as
much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that
they might earn more than they were paid for." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "If I have work to do, the sooner started the sooner through." | |
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Proverb
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| "If people really liked to work, we"d still be plowing the land with
sticks and transporting goods on our backs." | |
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William Feather
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| "If you aren"t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with
enthusiasm." | |
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Vincent Lombardi
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| "If you don"t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so
that you won"t have to work." | |
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Ogden Nash
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| "If you intend to work, there is no better place than right where you
are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere.
Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things
are needed: They must be fit for it; They must not do too much of it; And
they must have a sense of success in it." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "It takes a highly intellectual individual to enjoy leisure.... Most
of us had better count on working. What a man really wants is creative
challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success
so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.... Few people
overwork; plenty overeat, overworry, overdrink.... Few realize real joy
and happiness of conquest. The basis of mental health for the average
adult is more work, provided the work is not mere drudgery." | |
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Dr. Fay B. Nash
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| "It"s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the
chance?" | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it
tell it. ?Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narrat qui accepit" | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time
of day, ...... No road, no street, no t" other side the way, ...... No
shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no
leaves, no buds." | |
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Thomas Hood
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| "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something
else." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Nothing is work unless you?d rather be doing something else." | |
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George Halas
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| "Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half
results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is
the only way to accomplish results that last." | |
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Hamilton Holt
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| "O, how full of briers is this working-day world!" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of
Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open
day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above,
that is work, that is labor!" | |
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Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
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| "One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one"s
deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up
against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and
continued application." | |
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Paul Gallico
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| "Only through dedicated work does a man fulfill himself." | |
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William S. Carlson
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| "Our greatest weariness comes from work not done." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." | |
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Edward Gibbon
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| "Personal deficiencies might be termed negative qualities and include
unreliability, failure to cooperate, laziness, untidiness, trouble making,
interference and dishonesty. Positive qualities would include willingness,
cheerfulness, courtesy, honesty, neatness, reliability and temperance. Many
fail in their work because they are unable to overcome one personal
deficiency. Check up on yourself. Don"t be afraid to put yourself under a
microscope. Eliminate your negative qualities. Develop your positive ones.
You can"t win with the check mark in the wrong place." | |
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M. Winette
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| "Practice non-action. Work without doing." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "Princeton Universtiy, October 13, 1928: In order to be a success in
business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without
it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you
cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work?
Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work ? ENTHUSIASM.
That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and
the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a
thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was
lazy." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "Put your shoulder to the wheel." | |
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Aesop
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| "Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "Take two workers in an organization. One limits his giving by wages
he is paid. He insists on being paid instantly for what he does. That
shows he is a man of limited imagination and intelligence. The other is a
natural giver. His philosophy of life compels him to make himself useful.
He knows that if he takes care of other people"s problems they will be
forced to take care of him to protect their own interests. The more a man
gives of himself to his work, the more he will get out of it, both in
wages and satisfaction." | |
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J. T. Mackey
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| "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to
do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work,
and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control,
diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which
the idle never know." | |
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Charles Kingsley
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| "The best part of one?s life is the working part, the creative part.
Believe me, I love to succeed....However, the real spiritual and emotional
excitement is in the doing." | |
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Garson Kanin
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| "The essence of work is concentrated energy." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking
your work is terribly important." | |
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Milo Bloom
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| "The harder I work, the luckier I get." | |
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Samuel Goldwyn
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| "The harder you work, the luckier you get." | |
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Gary Player
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| "The law of work does seem utterly unfair ? but there it is, and
nothing can change it; the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out
of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see
how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a
dollar, is bound to succeed." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a
living generally find that the world pays its ?debt? in the penitentiary
or the poor house." | |
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William Graham Sumner
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| "The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work
brings you and the world?s need of that work. With this, life is heaven,
or as near heaven as you can get. Without this ? with work which you
despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need ? this life is
hell." | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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| "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word ? excellence. To
know how to do something well is to enjoy it." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that
work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill
exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work
itself." | |
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Sidney A. Weltmer
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| "The worst-tempered people I"ve ever met were the people who knew
they were wrong." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do
it reluctantly." | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you
doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked: " What
are you working for? " He answered: " Five dollars a day." The third man
was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " I am helping to build a
great cathedral." Which man are you?" | |
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Charles Michael Schwab
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| "To bring one"s self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to
accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big
battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then
everything is easy." | |
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Thomas A. Buckner
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| "To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to
work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness
as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is
that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of
itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all." | |
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Mark Sullivan
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| "Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you
to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a
sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your
opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something
worthwhile." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame." | |
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Euripides
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| "We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by
capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling
of labor by labor, or of capital by capital." | |
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John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.
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| "We don"t work for each other, We work with each other." | |
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Stanley C. Gault
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| "We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the
positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power
to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "What is love? ... It is the morning and the evening star." | |
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Sinclair Lewis
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| "When people are the least sure, they are often the most
dogmatic." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "When people go to work, they shouldn"t have to leave their hearts at
home." | |
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Betty Bender
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| "Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or
course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to
thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to
the thought." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Work is a four-letter word." | |
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Morrissey
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| "Work is love made visible." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Work is more fun than fun." | |
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Noel Coward
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| "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or
near the earth"s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling
other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the
second is pleasant and highly paid." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest
man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and
persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines,
even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline
begins." | |
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Sir Theodore Martin
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| "Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as
your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old
as your despair." | |
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Paul H. Dunn
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| "You can tell some fellows aren"t afraid of work by the way they
fight it." | |
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Unknown
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| "You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of the work. You
should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long
for inaction." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "You"re only as good as the people you hire." | |
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Ray Kroc
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